Joel Dunning
This Wall Street Journal article documents the dramatic rise in the popularity of transcatheter aortic valves, but it also discusses the issue of early valve failure and the impact it has on patients’ lives.
...This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Luca Di Marco, a cardiac surgeon in the Department of Cardiac Surgery at the Bologna University Hospital, Italy, about...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with David Waller, Chair of the EACTS Emphysema Taskforce and Director of the EACTS Fundamentals Course in Thoracic Surgery, about...
This expert consensus document addresses lung volume reduction (LVR) for emphysema, including surgical and endobronchial approaches for appropriately selected patients. It provides guidance on patient selection, techniques, risks, transplantation considerations,...
This article summarizes the surgical treatment of Pope Leo XIV, who was recently diagnosed with lung adenocarcinoma. Surgeons performed a uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) lobectomy. The surgery team reported...
Pectus defects are a group of congenital conditions found in approximately 1 in 250 people, where the sternum is depressed back toward the spine (excavatum), protrudes forward (carinatum) or, more...
This patient had a severely calcified aorta with severe aortic regurgitation, calcified ascending aorta, and an occluded distal aorta with claudication. The aorta had to be cannulated at the back...
This video presents a forty-seven year-old woman who, when she was two years old, had a balloon valvuloplasty, then, as a teen, she had a Ross procedure. This procedure failed,...
This patient had a severely calcified valve which then became infected with endocarditis with abscess cavities under the left main coronary artery and right coronary artery. To begin the procedure,...
The patient in this video is a fit and active seventy-six-year-old man. Twenty-five years previously, he had a Ross procedure, but now presents with aortic root dilation. A percutaneous femoral...
This week on The Beat, Editor in Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Albert Jauregui Abularach about his work as a pioneer in robotic lung transplantation. Joel also talks about...
This video demonstrates a right upper lobectomy. Although there is never a perfect case, the authors believe they are doing many things correctly with this technique. First, this is a...
This is the case of a sixty-eight-year-old man who had an acute aortic dissection 10 years previously and had quite a small prosthetic aortic tube grafted onto a relatively large...








